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State of the Art
For, but not by, ChatGPT:
Virginia Heffernan
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Humans Have Always Been Wrong About Humans
If you’re around Brooklyn this evening, Tuesday, January 24, please stop by the central Brooklyn Library—10 Grand Army Plaza Brooklyn, NY 11238—to catch…
Virginia Heffernan
Jan 24
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Hot Rhotica
When to sound that “r” and when to keep it quiet. Today I will address a set of words that many of us have been mispronouncing our whole lives.
Virginia Heffernan
Jan 20
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The Irony-Free Years (2016-2021)
I passed my friend my phone. “He’s hot,” Alex said, agreeably. My ribs turned cold. The pale, tall, tattooed man in the photo—black tank top, cigarette…
Virginia Heffernan
Jan 16
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A candid conversation with Seth Abramson
America’s most dogged pursuer of the Trump-Russia story.
Virginia Heffernan
Jan 13
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'Well, This Is About to Go Down'
Reps. Hakeem Jeffries and Jamie Raskin remember the Capitol attack
Virginia Heffernan
Jan 10
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'Well, This Is About to Go Down'
Reps. Hakeem Jeffries and Jamie Raskin remember the Capitol attack
Virginia Heffernan
Jan 9
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December 2022
The True Meaning of Christmas
Why it’s unfindable.
Virginia Heffernan
Dec 20, 2022
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Let Twitter Devolve Into Porn
It’s always pleasing to see things become what they deep down are.
Virginia Heffernan
Dec 13, 2022
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NYT Walkout: The problem with being a part of an 'elite' institution
Which side are you on? There’s a major walkout at the New York Times for the first time since the 1930s. More than 1,100 members of the New York Times…
Virginia Heffernan
Dec 8, 2022
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Bob McGrath and Sesame Street’s Inner City
Fifty-three years ago, Bob McGrath, the actor and singer who died Sunday at 90, appeared on an episode of a brand-new children’s show called Sesame…
Virginia Heffernan
Dec 5, 2022
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November 2022
Is Moore’s Law Really Dead?
OHM’S LAW (V = IR) states that the voltage across a conductor is proportional to the current flowing through it. Hooke’s law (Fs = -kx) states that the…
Virginia Heffernan
Nov 22, 2022
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